Thomas Brooks
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.Collection: Humility
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.Collection: Men
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.Collection: Humble
Truth is mighty and will prevailCollection: Truth Is
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.Collection: Fall
Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.Collection: Loss
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.Collection: Prayer
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .Collection: Prayer
Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.Collection: Lying
There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.Collection: Men
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.Collection: Clouds
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.Collection: Christian
Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.Collection: Heaven
Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.Collection: Men
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.Collection: Strong
Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.Collection: Heart
There is great danger, yea many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.Collection: Strong
Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.Collection: Father
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.Collection: Mother
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.Collection: Religious
The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.Collection: Fire
What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!Collection: Dream
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].Collection: Prayer
What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!Collection: Long
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.Collection: Two
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.Collection: Hands
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.Collection: Prayer
There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace; and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace.Collection: Heart
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.Collection: Heart
There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.Collection: Men
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.Collection: Rebel
There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.Collection: Men
How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!Collection: Soul
There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.Collection: Men
He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.Collection: Religious
Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.Collection: Christian
The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.Collection: Believe
If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.Collection: Christian
Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.Collection: Christ
Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."Collection: Christian
A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.Collection: Christian
Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.Collection: Christian
The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.Collection: Spring
Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.Collection: Men
Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.Collection: Too Late
Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.Collection: Confused
Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.Collection: Men
God is as just as he is merciful.Collection: Merciful
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'Collection: Christian